Well is it a bye or a child?

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Heard in Kilkenny and Cork

A quaint rural query as to the sex of a newborn infant. Bye means 'boy'.

Well missus, did ye have a bye or a child?

Posh English

Tell me, madam, did you produce a son or simply another child?

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